I got this phone this week new. When I transferred everything over and looked at my contacts there was the phot icon as per your picture so I added a couple. As I said it then disappeared. All my contacts now are only listed alphabetically with no option to add a pic.

I decided to add a contact and save to phone. Hey presto, I got the photo icon and was able to add a pic - so that was a great help thank you. I still cant suss out why all the other contacts dont show the photo option, its annoying me 🤔 I could add everyone again and save to phone ....

I was thinking of setting my phone back to default and starting over again. I wonder if it would load with the photo option? What are your views on this? I have always had Samsung so am familiar with how they work.

So I have created a couple of new contacts, saved them to phone only and can add photo if I want so thats good. My next question how can I save fhem to SIM as I thought it was always important to have numbers saved to the SIM?

Saving contacts to your SIM used to be the advice when transferring them from one device to another was a complicated process. The SIM will only have fields for Name and Number (with limited characters), and certainly no photo. The phone, by contrast, can store addresses, multiple numbers, email details etc and (generally) has no capacity limit (other than storage size) either.

Your best option these days is to sync with an online service, such as Google, so that everything's backed up. If you use Google, your contacts will appear as soon as you sign in on any Android device and you only have one central store to keep updated. As a precaution, I also periodically export mine (use the Manage Contacts option in the Contacts menu) and save the resulting file to another cloud service and my PC.

I'm not sure why you're not getting the Add Photo option, unless you have your contacts on both the SIM and the phone and it's sometimes accessing one and sometimes the other. I'd recommend tidying everything up and syncing to (say) Google.